Beginning middle and end Quote by Charles Spurgeon

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

— John Ortberg

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of…

— Charles Spurgeon

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to…

— Phillips Brooks

“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?”

— Eugene L. Lowry

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that…

— Marilynne Robinson

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

— William Gilmore Simms

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together…

— George Burns

“You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like…

— Charles Spurgeon

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne